Somehow for some reason I can't add big mp3 folders to the winamp media library, it also get stuck and does nothing. I use the latest winamp 5.666 and latest patches with Windows 7 PRO x64. Hopefully someone can help me out?

With kind regard, Tim.

edit: it might be a problem with user rights
=> usb-hdd was setup in Win.XP (x86) on a new Win7 (x64) I can see the files, trying to fix this

Last edited by apoc [t.i.m.]; 24th October 2014 at 11:32.
Reason: added edit:

I am proud I took part in signing a petition against the death of Winamp. Winamp will not die!!!!
DrO and the entire team from Radionomy Thank you!
I read in earlier postings of DrO that Winamp will continue to allow Winamp SDK for creating plug-ins and external controling of Winamp?
I must admit that I immediately dig for old laptops and began to comb the program code last modified in 2010
DrO I hope to be allowed to ask the people here in the forum, when I launch the website again and comb through the program code, to try my program that expands Winamp so it has the possibilities that a radio station needs to work?
So some specifics that are not necessary for all users, and would come in handy for those who use Winamp for radio broadcasting I'll try to incorporate into my program and not accumulating little-used functions in Winamp (and to little depressurize DrO. ;-) ). Till the community of plug-ins developers gathers again.

Hi Winamp dev, can't wait to see what you guys come up with next! Not sure if this is the right place for this (or if I'm posting this right) but I was wondering about ID3 Tagging, why not get the info from Discogs, iTunes, Amazon, Beatport etc. and use an internal script to apply it to the files, like magic?

P.S. Please keep the format converter and as many awesome features as you can guys

Hi Winamp dev, can't wait to see what you guys come up with next! Not sure if this is the right place for this (or if I'm posting this right) but I was wondering about ID3 Tagging, why not get the info from Discogs, iTunes, Amazon, Beatport etc. and use an internal script to apply it to the files, like magic?

P.S. Please keep the format converter and as many awesome features as you can guys

I'm guessing because those services weren't made for that reason, so it wouldn't be easy to implement, versus services that were made for album info pulling.

Plus I doubt services like Amazon or iTunes would even have an API to use.

I'm guessing because those services weren't made for that reason, so it wouldn't be easy to implement, versus services that were made for album info pulling.

Plus I doubt services like Amazon or iTunes would even have an API to use.

I wouldn't know anything about API's or backends but it would be cool to see

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChiggyChiggy

Amazon has one for fetching cover art i believe (but not track/ album info), Musicbrainz uses it when it doesnt have coverart in its own database.

I've used Musicbrainz Picard in the past and most of the time the results were compilation CD's from Eastern Europe or something completely random so I ended up doing the work myself by searching around on Discogs. I always found what I needed, even cover art when avaliable (as long as 2 pieces of info were correct), but it was very time consuming. I was hoping the dev could come up with a way to partially automate the process.

[EDIT] Thanks for the replies!

Last edited by GorillaCat; 26th October 2014 at 16:34.
Reason: Forgot to say thankyou

the information any of those services provide is only as good as what is put in and how the matching is able to be done.

like from the early testing i have done, coverart via Musicbrainz generally doesn't get me anything whereas it almost always works when done via last.fm's service.

whatever is eventually provided, it will have to be able to make sense of data (metadata and artwork) from multiple sources to attempt to find the most applicable match. since if you're trying to auto-tag something, it's effectively a guessing game and will be only as good as what can be made sense of from the information that can be obtained (assuming it's correct - as i've seen weird things come back for CD lookup requests over the years which bore little relation to the actual CD that was expected, again coming back to you get back as good as what you put in).

and i don't know where you've gotten the idea the format converter was being removed, there's never been any mention or reason for that to happen (the most is that you'll need to download at least lame_enc.dll yourself rather than it being included in the Winamp installer).

the information any of those services provide is only as good as what is put in and how the matching is able to be done.

like from the early testing i have done, coverart via Musicbrainz generally doesn't get me anything whereas it almost always works when done via last.fm's service.

whatever is eventually provided, it will have to be able to make sense of data (metadata and artwork) from multiple sources to attempt to find the most applicable match. since if you're trying to auto-tag something, it's effectively a guessing game and will be only as good as what can be made sense of from the information that can be obtained (assuming it's correct - as i've seen weird things come back for CD lookup requests over the years which bore little relation to the actual CD that was expected, again coming back to you get back as good as what you put in).

and i don't know where you've gotten the idea the format converter was being removed, there's never been any mention or reason for that to happen (the most is that you'll need to download at least lame_enc.dll yourself rather than it being included in the Winamp installer).

Noted, although I thought Picard looked at every piece of info in the files + soundprint, but I'm probably wrong.

And for the converter I didn't know if it was going or not, thanks for the confirmation.

there's a number of ways of handling things when it comes to auto-tagging (which will likely follow some form of fingerprinting - but that's again only as good as what is in any fingerprint db) and other such things as artwork generally just needs artist and album values to get a viable lookup request.

whatever comes, hopefully it won't suck too badly, especially as i'm pretty sure it's going to need to have refinement over a few releases (assuming anyone is left to use a 6.01 or whatever comes after the first 6.0 release.

thank you for your very kind words. however, checking the first mirror link from http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....74929#download does not indicate any of the things you've mentioned and without knowing how / what has indicated this to you, we cannot provide much of a suggestion as to why such a thing has happened. especially as there is none of things in the Winamp installer which could be detected in such a manner as part of any of the 5.66x releases. you can see this for yourself by opening the Winamp installer up in 7-zip and looking at the files, etc which are included within the installer.

You should really, really, really delete the download option from firehorse. It doesn't even use the same installer that the third option uses. Instead it uses it's own installer and puts malware/spyware on your machine.

I declined all the offers, clicked install. It installed, said "The installation could not be complete please try again later" yet still installed all the malaware and junk that I declined.

Seriously, how could you be so stupid as to share your file on that piece of shit website?

You should really, really, really delete the download option from firehorse. It doesn't even use the same installer that the third option uses. Instead it uses it's own installer and puts malware/spyware on your machine.

I declined all the offers, clicked install. It installed, said "The installation could not be complete please try again later" yet still installed all the malaware and junk that I declined.

Seriously, how could you be so stupid as to share your file on that piece of shit website?

This

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrO

thank you for your very kind words. however, checking the first mirror link from http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....74929#download does not indicate any of the things you've mentioned and without knowing how / what has indicated this to you, we cannot provide much of a suggestion as to why such a thing has happened. especially as there is none of things in the Winamp installer which could be detected in such a manner as part of any of the 5.66x releases. you can see this for yourself by opening the Winamp installer up in 7-zip and looking at the files, etc which are included within the installer.

well it gave me the correct download when i tried it but now it doesn't

will get something sorted, though what's on those sites is generally out of our control (and before anyone else decides to get abusive about things, this is a sad side effect of the sale and until we have a new release, this is a position for which our hands are tied).

The downloaded filename(s) should be exactly the same as the one(s) in the Winamp 5.666 Released sticky thread ;-)
Let us know if any of the download mirrors are providing (illegal) modified installers and we will remove said mirror links from here.

Eliittihemuli: it's not even the primary suggested download, and it's now giving me the correct link as well - so if that's stupid or whatever profanities want to be used then so be it. additionally if you don't like filehorse or whatever mirror, then don't download from it. and it's not like there not other options, including the new one at the top of the list of mirrors provided!

it comes across that way when the first post you make ends with "You fucking pricks"

i have detailed why things are as-is, we've checked what we can for an unaffiliated 3rd party site (which is giving the correct download) and i've now even personally provided a mirror for the downloads.

it comes across that way when the first post you make ends with "You fucking pricks"

i have detailed why things are as-is, we've checked what we can for an unaffiliated 3rd party site (which is giving the correct download) and i've now even personally provided a mirror for the downloads.

I do apologise for my harsh words, but just minutes after I clean reinstalled my computer and started reinstalling my softwares back I download Winamp from their own site and end up with bunch of adwares and malwares, if I may use that as an excuse

@Eliittihemuli
Someone from FileHorse contacted me privately and apologized for accidentally providing the bad installer and promised that they would only be providing the official clean installer from now on. I have confirmed this to be the case, and because they asked so nicely, I added the link again.
I've also changed the FileHippo link so it leads to the direct download for the clean official installer.
There should be no more problems with this issue from now on. All five links are now healthy.
I apologize myself for not catching the bad download links sooner and am very grateful to all the people who reported the problem here.

Winamp: "Oh of course, we totally understand! Ha, what a silly accident that has occured here!"

___________

And to everyone saying "oh well there's other links don't click that one" the fact of the matter is that you're allowing people to download this fucking junk in the first place. They used their own installer and filled people up with malaware, they got caught. Delete their fucking link and stop doing business with them you utter twats. God, it's really fucking simple you guys.

I understand your concerns, and I also feel your pain about the malware in that 3rd-party external installer.
Not good. Not good at all!

The old link at FileHorse was the same as the 'using download manager' one from the FileHippo link.
Afaik, it was FileHippo's modified installer.
FileHorse have since changed it to the direct download link instead.

We should probably remove the FileHippo link.... but I've changed that to use the direct download, as have FileHorse.
I wasn't aware of the problem until it was reported here.

Again, I'm sorry for not finding out sooner. And yes, I'm a big softie at heart. Sorry for that too.

plans changed (due to some internal and a number of external factors) and the initial hopeful dates were always never set in stone - this is why providing ETAs is never a good thing. all that is stated now is 2015 and whether that is the start of 2015 or the end of 2015 even i don't know.

as for the view not working, you need to provide a bit more information than just "doesn't work" like screenshots, info tool reports, etc.